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1、1Common Sense on English LiteratureAuthor (Comment) WorksEnglands national epic The Song of Beowulf(3182 lines)Geoffrey Chaucer “father of English poetry”The Canterbury talesGeneral Prologue; Popular Ballads;Robin Hood and Allin-a-Dale;Get Up and Bar the Door;Sir Parrick SpensHumanist Thomas More (R
2、enaissance) UtopiaEdmund Spenser(1552-1599) The Fairy QueenWilliam Shakespeare (1564-1616)37 plays, 154 sonnetsThe 4 great tragedies: Hamlet, King Lear, Macbeth & OthelloThe Comedy of Errors, Loves Labours Lost,A Midsummer Nights Dream,The Merchant of Venice,(Shylock, evil; Portia, judge)Much Ado Ab
3、out NothingThe Merry Wives of WindsorAs You Like It,Alls Well That Ends WellTimon of Athens,The Winters Tale,The TempestFrancis Bacon(15611626) Philosophical works:Advancement of LearningLiterary works ( Of Truth; Of Studies; Of death; Of Revenge, Of Friendship)Maxims of the Law; Reading on the Stat
4、ute of Uses(the largest and most important of his professional works.John Milton(16081774) Paradise Lost(12 books) Paradise RegainedSonnet: On His BlindnessSonnet: On His Deceased WifeJohn Bunyan(16281688) The Pilgrims ProgressDaniel Defoe(16611731) Robinson Crusoe(1719)Johnathan Swift(16671745) Gul
5、livers Travels; A Modest ProposalJoseph Addison (16721719) The Tatler; The SpectatorHenry Fielding(17071754) The History of Tom Jones,a Foundling2Thomas Gray (17161771) Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard(the best poem in Emglish)Oliver Goldsmith(1728-1774), a versatile author The Vicar of Wakefie
6、ld (novel)She Stoops to Conquer (comedy)The Citizen of the World (essays)The Traveler& The Deserted Village(two poems)Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751-1816) The School for ScandalThe Rivals (comedy) The critic(Farce)William Blake(1757-1827), the most independent and the most original romantic poet of
7、 the 18th centuryThe Songs of ExperienceThe Songs of InnocenceLondon; The Chimney SweeperRobert Burns(1759-1796), whose poetry is bone of the bone and flesh of the flesh of the Scottish common peopleMy hearts In the HighlandJohn Anderson, My JoA Red, Red RoseTo A MouseWilliam Wordsworth(1770-1850) R
8、omancistLyrical Ballads:Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey; The Prelude;The Excursion; The Solitary Reaper;She Dwelt Among the Untrodden Ways;I Wandered Lonely As a CloudGeorge Gordon, Lord Byron (1788-1824)Don Juan (satire masterpiece)She Walks in BeautyChilde Harolds PigrimageManfred,
9、Cain (dramas)Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822) Ode to the West WindTo a Sky-lark; Ozymandias;Men of EnglandPrometheus UnboundJohn Keats (1795-1821) Ode to a NightingaleOde on a Grecian UrnOn First Looking into Chapmans To Autumn; Bright Star;Homer (sonnet)Walter Scott (1771-1832) Ivanhoe; Rob RoyJane
10、 Austen(1775-1817) Pride and PrejudiceCharles Lamb (1775-1834) Tales From Shakespeare(Last) Essays of EliaDissertation on Roast PigDream-Children: a ReveriePoor RelationOliver Twist; Little Dorrit;3Charles Dickens (1812-1870)Pickwick PapersGreat ExpectationA Tale of Two Cities;Hard Times David Coppe
11、rfield;The Old Curiosity ShopWilliam Makepeace Thackeray (1811-1863)Vanity Fair(Novel Without a Hero)George Eliot(1819-1880) Adam BedeCharlotte Bronte (1816-1855) Jane EyreEmily Bronte (1818-1848) Wuthering HeightsThomas Hood (1799-1845) The Song of the Shirt;The Bridge of SighsAlfred, Lord Tennyson
12、 (1809-1892) Ulysses; Break, Break, Break;Crossing The BarRobert Browning (1812-1889) My Last Duchess;Home-Thoughts, from AbroadElizabeth Barrett Browning (1806-1861)Sonnets from the PortugueseThomas Hardy (1840-1928)Tess of the DUrbervillesJude the ObscureThe Return of the NativeThe Mayor of Caster
13、bridgeJohn Galsworthy (1867-1933) The Forsyte SagaThe Man of PropertyOscar Wilde (1854-1900)Aestheticism. Art for Arts Sake The Portrait of Dorian GrayComedies: Lady Windermeres Fan;A Woman of No Importance;An Ideal Husband; The Important of Being EarnestGeorge Bernard Shaw(1856-1950) Arms and the M
14、anMrs. Warrens ProfessionD.H. Lawrence (1885-1930) Lady Chatterlays Lover; The Rainbow; Sons and LoversVirginia Woolf (1882-1941) Mrs. Dalloway; Jacobs Room;To the Lighthouse; The Waves; The Common ReaderJames Joyce (1882-1941) Araby; Dubliners; Ulysses4Common Sense on American LiteratureAuthor (Com
15、ment) WorksCaptain John Smith (the first American writer)A True Relation of Such Occurrences and Accidents of Note as Hath Happened in Virginia Since the First Planting of That Colony; A Map of Virginia: with a Description of the CountryWilliam Bradford The History of Plymouth PlantationJohn Winthro
16、p The History of New England; JournalBenjamin Franklin (1706-1790) Poor Richards AlmanacAutobiography; Collected WorksThomas Paine(1737-1809) (Great Commoner of Mankind)American Crisis; The Age of ReasonThomas Jefferson (1743-1826) The Declaration of IndependencePhilip Freneau (1752-1832) Father of American PoetryThe Wild Honey SuckleThe Indian Burying GroundTo a Caty-DidWashington Irving (1783-185
